Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Mechanics of hard-magnetic soft materials: A review

L Lu, J Sim, RR Zhao - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials are a class of magnetically responsive composites obtained by
embedding hard-magnetic particles into a soft polymeric matrix. They have found …

In situ sensing physiological properties of biological tissues using wireless miniature soft robots

C Wang, Y Wu, X Dong, M Armacki, M Sitti - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Implanted electronic sensors, compared with conventional medical imaging, allow
monitoring of advanced physiological properties of soft biological tissues continuously, such …

Magnetically tunable longitudinal wave band gaps in hard-magnetic soft laminates

Z Alam, S Padmanabhan, AK Sharma - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials belong to the class of active materials that undergo finite
deformation and alter their material properties when subjected to magnetic loading …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterials

Q Zhang, AV Cherkasov, N Arora, G Hu… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterial. The tunable
metamaterial integrates hard-Magnetic Active Elastomers (hMAEs) into the microstructural …

[HTML][HTML] A computational framework for magnetically hard and soft viscoelastic magnetorheological elastomers

M Rambausek, D Mukherjee, K Danas - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work deals with a comprehensive theoretical and numerical framework that allows the
modeling of finite strain magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) comprising mechanically …

[HTML][HTML] A Kirchhoff-like theory for hard magnetic rods under geometrically nonlinear deformation in three dimensions

TG Sano, M Pezzulla, PM Reis - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Magneto-rheological elastomers (MREs) are functional materials that can be actuated by
applying an external magnetic field. MREs comprise a composite of hard magnetic particles …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive framework for hard-magnetic beams: reduced-order theory, 3D simulations, and experiments

D Yan, A Abbasi, PM Reis - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Thin beams made of magnetorheological elastomers embedded with hard-magnetic
particles (hard-MREs) are capable of large deflections under an applied magnetic field. We …

[HTML][HTML] A reduced-order, rotation-based model for thin hard-magnetic plates

D Yan, BFG Aymon, PM Reis - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We develop a reduced-order model for thin plates made of hard magnetorheological
elastomers (hard-MREs), which are composed of hard-magnetic particles embedded in a …

Dynamic morphological transformations in soft architected materials via buckling instability encoded heterogeneous magnetization

N Xia, D Jin, C Pan, J Zhang, Z Yang, L Su… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The geometric reconfigurations in three-dimensional morphable structures have a wide
range of applications in flexible electronic devices and smart systems with unusual …